In his book “Abortion: A Doctor’s Perspective, a Woman’s Dilemma” abortion provider Don Sloan tells a story about when he was lobbying the New York State legislature on lifting abortion restrictions:
“We had needed only a single precious vote to go our way, and one conservative upstate lawmaker had switched his vote at the last minute.” A colleague said the vote had gone their way because the legislator was counting on abortion to limit the number of poor babies and keep the welfare rolls down. “‘It was part people who want to put abortion into the medical code where it belongs and part racism.’ . . . I hated to think that abortion reform had come out of such a philosophy, but I knew plenty of people saw abortion as a way to control the poor. . . Ending poverty would never be so simple as getting rid of poor babies. But if indeed that had been the reason behind the vote, it wouldn’t have been new in history.
Don Sloan, M.D. with Paula Hartz, Abortion: A Doctor’s Perspective, A Woman’s Dilemma. (New York: Donald I Fine, Inc., 1992 p 41.
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